Defendant Charged In $1.9 Million Covid-19 Fraud Scheme

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jonathan Mellone, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Labor Office…

Road rage leads to shooting on Garden State Parkway south of Toms River exit

Toms River, N.J.- The New Jersey State Police have arrested William Sabo, 22, of Berkeley, N.J., for allegedly brandishing a handgun and shooting at another vehicle on the Garden State Parkway in…

14 Arrests Within Hours at the Checkpoint

FALFURRIAS, Texas – Falfurrias Border Patrol Station (FLF) agents interdicted two migrant smuggling events in tractor trailers at the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint. On Jan. 17, at approximately 4:00 p.m., a…

Investigation reveals LA cop who shot dog was being attacked

LOS ANGELES, CA – On December 13, 2021, at approximately 4:53 p.m., Seventy-Seventh Street, Gang Enforcement Detail (GED) officers were conducting a search with Metropolitan Division K9 officers for a man with…

K-9 Colt helps Walton County deputies sniff out suspected meth trafficker

WALTON COUNTY, Fla— A traffic stop for speeding leads to the arrest of a Freeport man for trafficking methamphetamine Monday night. On January 17th at 9 pm, a Walton County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant…

Homeless man struck and killed crossing MLK Highway in Lanham

Lanham, Maryland – The Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal pedestrian collision that occurred Thursday night in Lanham. The deceased pedestrian is 60-year-old Lonell Fortune of no fixed address. …

Energy Department To Recruit Workers To Fight Climate Change In Largest Expansion Since 1977

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced Thursday that it would begin hiring 1,000 employees for its so-called Clean Energy Corps which will be tasked with fighting climate change. The new climate unit…

Fentanyl Dealers Sentenced To 12 And 8 Years In Federal Prison

Orlando, Florida – U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Bolivar Anibal Cordova, Jr. (42, Windermere) and Luis Manuel Cordero (40, Orlando) to 12 years and 7 months and 8 years…

Companies Agree to Pay $1.15 Million to Resolve Allegations of Fraud in Obtaining Army Contracts Reserved for Eligible Small Businesses

DENVER – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Idaho-based Native American Services Corp. (NASCO) and Texas-based Mirador Enterprises, Inc. (Mirador) have agreed to pay $1.15 million…

Defendant Sentenced To Life In Prison For Double Murder On Indian Reservation

RENO, Nev. – A Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe member was sentenced today to a term of life in prison as to both counts to run consecutively to each other for murdering two…

Vehicle Stop in Baltimore Results in Three Arrested and Gun, Drugs and Cash Recovered

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND – On January 7, 2022 at approximately 7:46 pm, Western District officers made a vehicle stop in the 1400 block of Laurens Street. A police K9 conducted a positive sniff…

Driver charged for leaving scene of crash that killed woman in Mount Holly

MOUNT HOLLY, NJ – Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina and Mount Holly Township Police Chief Richard Spitler announced that a 41-year-old Mount Holly resident has been charged with leaving the scene of…

KC Man Pleads Guilty to Armed Carjacking That Resulted in Police Pursuit, Fatal Collision

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Missouri, man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in an armed carjacking that led to a high-speed chase in which he collided…

262 Month Prison Sentence for Repeat Felon Convicted in Meth Case, Apprehended Following Helicopter, K-9 Search

MACON, Ga. – A Middle Georgia armed robbery parolee with fourteen prior felony convictions was sentenced in federal court for distributing methamphetamine in a case involving a multi-agency search for the escaped defendant,…

Shannon Kepler Sentenced to 25 Years for Murder

Former police officer Shannon Kepler, 61, was sentenced today in federal court for killing Jeremey Lake on Aug. 5, 2014. U.S. District Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Kepler to 25 years in…

Teen reported missing from South Jersey home

GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, NJ – On 12/27/2021 at approximately 1417 hrs. Asaiah Jones was reported missing from her residence, by her mother. Asaiah was observed leaving the home on surveillance camera. Asaiah Jones…

Migrants Placed in Danger by Smugglers

EDINBURG, Texas –Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents and local law enforcement partners work together to disrupt dangerous human smuggling efforts. On Dec. 26, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the Harlingen…

‘Truly Historic’: Biden EPA Introduces New Regulations To Force Electric Vehicle Transition

Thomas Catenacci on December 20, 2021 The Biden administration rolled out a series of new emissions regulations for passenger vehicles and light trucks that it said would “unlock” $190 billion in benefits…

Nine Indicted for Payment Protection Program Fraud

PHOENIX, Ariz. – Last week, Jason Coleman, 40, and Kimberly Coleman, 38, of Mesa, Arizona, made their initial appearance in federal court on a 62-count indictment charging them with Conspiracy, Bank Fraud,…

Fairview Aerial Sprayer Pays $240,000 to Settle Trespass and Destruction of Public Property Claims

A Fairview-based aerial herbicide application company has paid $240,000 to settle allegations of trespass and destruction of United States property at Skiatook and Birch Lakes, in Osage County, announced Clinton J. Johnson,…

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